thee therefore O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks who hast wrought this mighty salvation for us Stablish O God that which thou hast wrought for us And give us we beseech thee such a dutiful and deep sence of thy goodness to us that we may live as becomes a People saved by the Lord. Banish we pray thee from among us all Infidelity and Profaneness purge us from all our abominations take away all Hatred and Dissentions And endue us with a Spirit of true Piety and Holiness of Love and Goodness of Vnity and Concord that the Blessings of Peace together with the Purity of Religion may he secured to us and continued to our Posterity for the Merits of Iesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ The Collect for Peace O God who art the author of Peace and lover of Concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose Service is perfect freedom Defend us thy humble servants in all Assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the VVorld have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and Famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy VVord and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Iudgment Good Lord deliver us VVe sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servants William and Mary our most gracious King and Queen We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule their hearts in thy faith fear and love and that they may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be their defender and keeper giving them the victory over all their enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy VVord and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain Truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations Vnity Peace and Concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy VVord and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That
it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy VVord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OVr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our Trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answ Neither reward us after our iniquities ¶ Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answ As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c shall be said this which followeth ALmighty and most gracious God who hast been our Deliverer in the Day of our Distress and hast raised up thy Servant King WILLIAM to be the happy Instrument of our Deliverance VVe praise thy holy Name that hast so wonderfully preserved him from the great dangers to which he hath been so often exposed More especially we adore thy great goodness to him in the discovery and disappointment of that bloody and barbarous Attempt design'd upon his Sacred Person by his cruel and implacable Enemies VVe humbly beseech thee still to continue him under the merciful care and protection of thy good Providence and to bless him with good Success And likewise to give us grace in a thankful sence of thy great goodness to live in obedience to thee and in subjection to their Majesties whom we beseech thee long to preserve and continue to us for thy mercies sake in Iesus Christ our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ Immediately before the Prayer of St. Chrysostom use the Collect of Thanksgiving for peace and deliverance from our Enemies ALmighty God who art a strong Towre of Defence unto thy Servants against the face of their Enemies VVe yield thee Praise and Thanksgiving for our Deliverence from those great and apparent Dangers wherewith we were compassed VVe acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a Prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy Mercies towards us that all the VVorld may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer of S. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Cor. 13. 14. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service between the Commandments and the Epistle shall this Collect be used instead of the Collect for the King and Queen and of the Collect for the day O Most gracious God who of thy infinite goodness hast preserved our Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM from the treacherous practices of wicked and blood thirsty men and from the manifold Dangers to which his Royal Person hath been exposed for the Publick Good during his late Expedition and hast brought him back to us in safety VVe beseech thee to fill our hearts with unfeigned thankfulness to thee for so great Blessings and still to continue their Majesties under the watchful care of thy Providence to protect their Sacred Persons from all secret Attempts and open Violence that no VVeapon no Design formed against them may prosper And to make them the happy Instruments of establishing that great Deliverance which thy Providence by them hath wrought for us in so wonderful a manner that all the world may see that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it VVhich we humbly beg for thy mercies sake in Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Eplstle Heb. XI verse 23. to
ver 34. BY faith Moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the kings commandment By faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproch of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward By faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible Through faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of bloud left he that destroyed the first-born should touch them By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned By faith the walls of Iericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace And what shall I more say for the time would fall me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Iephthae of David also and Samuel and of the prophets VVho through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong wared valiant in sight turned to flight the armies of the aliens ¶ The Gospel St. Matth. V. verse 43. to the end YE have heard that it hath been said Thou shall love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust For if ye love them which love you what reward have ye do not even the publicans the same And if ye salute your brethren only what do you more then others do not even the publicans so he ye therefore person even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect ¶ Then the Nicene Creen After that the Sermon ¶ After the Prayer For the whole State of Christs Church c. this Collect shall be used MOst Glorious Lord God whose Throne is in the Heavens and whose Kingdom ruleth over all VVho dost whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and in Earth and in the Sea Thou Lord hast been our Refuge from one Generation to another Our father 's trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them they called upon thee and were not confounded VVe bless thy Name that thou hast also heard the voice of our humble petitions which we did put up to thee in the day of our Distress and hast not only kept us in peace at home and graciously preserved us from the malicious Designs of our Enemies abroad and from that Destruction which they bad prepared for us but hast likewise been pleased to bless their Majesties Fleet with a most-wonderful Success and hast triumphed gloriously over the powerful Enemy VVhat shall we render unto thee O Lord for all these benefits VVe will love the Lord who hath inclined his ear unto us and call upon him as long as we live Vnto thee O God will we pay our vows unto thee will we give thanks And grant we beseech thee that being delivered from the hands of our Enemies we may serve thee without fear in holiness and righteousness before thee all the days of our lives That thou who hast hitherto been our Helper and Deliverer mayest be pleased to establish Truth and Peace in the midst of us to the glory of thy great Name the comfort and support of the Reformed Churches abroad the propagation of the Gospel and the enlargement of the Kingdom of thy dear Sou VVhich we beseech thee to hasten that all Nations may fall down and worship before thee saying Blessing and Glory and VVisdom and Honour and Power be unto our God for ever and ever Amen ¶ A Prayer for all Mankind especially for the Reformed Churches MOst gracious and merciful God who art the Saviour of all Men especially of those that believe and hast commanded us to make prayers and intercessions for all men desiring that all may be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth VVe humbly beseech thee to extend thy Mercy and Compassion to all Mankind more particularly to the Reformed Churches abroad and especially to those who are still under Persecution for Truth and Righteousness sake Relieve them according to their several necessities be a shelter and defence to them from the fury of the Oppressour Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee and according to the greatness of thy Power preserve them that are appointed to die Let not the poor always be forgotten let not the patient abiding of the meek perish for ever Visit in Mercy them that are vanished for the Testimony of thy Truth Gather thy dispersed together and restore the outcasts of thy People and in thy good time bring them home to worship thee in their own Land And whatsoever they have lost for thy sake return it to them according to thy gracious Promise in the manifold Blessings of this and a better Life Deliver Israel O God out of all his Troubl es And we beseech thee to enlighten all those who are in Darkness and Ertour and to give them Repentance to the acknowledgement of the Truth That all the ends of the Earth may remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord And we may all become one Flock under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen FINIS Psal 34.1 Verse 3. Psal 107.2 Psal 116.15 Verse 16. Exod. 15. 2. Verse 6. Ex. 18.11 Ps 18.27 Ps 10.15.18 Psal 12.5 Psal 27.2 Verse 8. Psal 20.5 Ps â—2 45 Ps 35.10 Ps 64.10 Ps 29.10 Ps 79.14